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Chez Jerome Cousin’s latest in the city serves French food in a casual, bistro format.

"Mostly, the cuisine has been subjugated to greasy takeaway, cheap places to go to after a night out and most of them serve a rather bastardised version of Indian food. But the new wave of Indian restaurants is doing a very good job in London," says Zorawar Kalra

A kheer shop that's delighted Delhi for more than 130 years.

Artists Krishen Khanna, Manu Parekh, Prabhakar Kolte, Akbar Padamsee and Gulam Mohammed Sheikh recall their associations with Ram Kumar.

Delhi rarely disappoints when it comes to its vast array of breakfast options, be it the meaty nihari or picture-perfect red velvet pancakes.

It isn’t just the Congress leaders who tilt towards their savouries. Recently, Chaina Ram clinched the title for the Best Samosa at the Delhi Street Food Awards, by Delhi Food Walks. If only there was a category for a well-camouflaged poori as well

It's time for the jackfruit to take its rightful place at the top of the fruit chain.

NicoCaara stages beautiful plates with seasonal and organic produce as their main protagonists but leaves you wanting more

In 2008, Jeff Arnett took on the mantle and is only the seventh distiller in the 150 years of Jack Daniel’s existence. In the Capital recently for a masterclass, he let us in on a regular day at the distillery and the demands of his much-coveted job. Excerpts from the interview:

The story of one of the capital’s most popular ice-cream parlours.

An award ceremony organised by Delhi Food Walks acknowledged some obvious and some lesser-known street food vendors of the city.

The menu is created under the aegis of Andrew Wong, who won a Michelin star for his eponymous restaurant in London last October. Though born to London-based Chinese restauranteur parents, Wong took to the kitchen only after his father died and his mother began running their four restaurants.

Stuart Freedman’s exhibition on the Coffee Houses of India is a ‘love letter’ to the fading institution

Murugan’s books have gained a much wider readership after their translation into several languages. While he “is happy about the development”, he takes issue with what originally put him under the national spotlight — a series of protests by local Hindu and caste-based groups over the depiction of certain rituals in Madhorubhagan.

The French-inflected food of Pondicherry, or ‘Pondy’ — as it is affectionately known — fills the concise menu at the restaurant, that has luckily found a snug spot away from the relentless bustle of Adchini.

It is not only for the exquisite artistry French chef Alain Passard achieves on the plate or the three Michelin stars he has held since 1996, but also for reaffirming the essential relationship between the chef and the produce, that Passard is hailed as a culinary legend.

Chef Gary Mehigan, one of the most popular faces on television, will be exchanging notes with several Indian chefs in his new show, Masters of Taste with Gary Mehigan.

Jasleen Dhamija writes about food and flirtation, balancing spontaneity with discretion, in her new book A Gourmet’s Journey: Discovering the Exotic and Erotic in Food

Orza aims to broaden the soft spot Delhi has for Awadhi and Kashmiri food

The India Art Fair garnered a larger body of collectors and catered to the uninitiated public.

A dichotomy of fear and ferocity lingers through the works of Mumbai-based artist Anju Dodiya.

The India Art Fair in Delhi presents multiple lenses to view social issues, questions the value of art, and keeps its promise with the Masters

In its first edition, The Irregulars Art Fair brings together independent artists to question established norms of the art world

From Presidents Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed and Zakir Hussain, to Prime Minister Indira Gandhi whose famed iftaar parties were catered by Karim’s, to actor Dilip Kumar and artist MF Hussain, all have savoured the magic only the family knows to stir up.